Shany Dror competed with her dog, Mitos, before helping launch the Genius Dog Challenge. The canine challenge is part of Dror's research for her doctorate at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, in which she focuses on the ways dogs and miniature pigs understand human language. Her team spent more than two years finding six of the cleverest canines to compete in the Genius Dog Challenge. "For me this project is a personal passion, fulfilling my childhood dream of trying to understand dogs," she said. Other breeds, such as Yorkshire Terriers and Belgian Shepherds, also pick up words the way other dogs fetch sticks.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 24, 2020 21:21 UTC